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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of novate.

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  • He also gave the church of Middlesburgh with two carucates, and two novates, of land in Nehuham, to the monks of Whitby in Yorkshire, on condition that they should place certain of their convent there; with which they complied, and made it a cell to their abbey.

    Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

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